2/22 UPDATE: @sapient has made a demo for this! https://fawm.org/songs/134818/
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2/21
@popmythology: Due to an emergency situation that's come up, I'm gonna have to bow out with this last bit.
This one started with @robynmackenzie's awesome song, "F*ck Your Money," (https://fawm.org/songs/131755/) which I instantly fell in love with and, while listening to it, got an idea to use the same song with her chorus but, instead of her sung verses, to put in my own spoken word verses. I asked her if she'd be ok w/ this, she kindly said yes and sent me an instrumental version that I could record my verses over and then send back to her.
Unfortunately, I just didn't have the experience, knowledge or skills to make it work. The quality of my voice recorded through my cheap mic sounded bad next to Robyn's lovely music and my vocal delivery, quite frankly, was lacking even though the timing of the lines worked quite nicely with the music. With more practice, time, and maybe a good tutorial or two, I might have been able to give her something to work with, but then my little emergency happened so that was that.
I asked Robyn if I could just post the lyrics anyway because I still think the idea was a good one, and she again nicely said yes and that she would've liked to have heard what I recorded, but I just couldn't do that to her, LOL. The process was fun and that's what matters for me. I'm grateful to such gracious artists like herself who let me play in their playgrounds. Thank you, Robyn!
V1 (@popmythology)
Every day I wake up and read the news and what I see just makes me want to fucking vomit
It’s like Don’t Look Up, y’all too blind to look at the sky and see the path of an oncoming comet
Too busy chasing money, power, status, fame, or some other bullshit that you think actually matters
Well I got news for you, it’s just a matter of time before your little fake ass reality’s gonna shatter
V2 (@popmythology)
Y’all make me sick, I can already see you bitchin and cryin about the future end of our democracy
Yet here we are, no amount of facts or data can make you shake off the strands of your hypocrisy
You just want to go back to brunch and $10 lattes and talk about your stupid portfolios
Yeah, keep it up, pretty soon you’ll have hungry mobs shoving revolution up your cornholios
CHORUS (@robynmackenzie)
But I'm still not having a good time
And I'm still not satisfied
Yeah I'm just not having a good time
So fuck you and this party, I'm not dancing anymore
Because I don't like your friends and this scene is such a bore
I hear your voice on the airwaves, catching flies with poisoned honey
But fuck your lies, fuck your bombs, fuck your money
V3 (@popmythology)
Don’t call me a “liberal,” I am your worst anarcho-communist nightmare and I ain’t here to fuck around
Killmonger was right, you just gotta light and burn the whole system down to the fucking ground
Covid proved to me that your comfort and bullshit are more important to you than my life, safety, or sanity
Now a hard rain’s a-gonna fall while you’re on your comfy asses watching Fox and Sean Patrick Hannity
CHORUS (@robynmackenzie)
But I'm still not having a good time
And I'm still not satisfied
Yeah I'm just not having a good time
So fuck you and this party, I'm not dancing anymore
Because I don't like your friends and this scene is such a bore
I hear your voice on the airwaves, catching flies with poisoned honey
But fuck your lies, fuck your bombs, fuck your money
BRIDGE (@robynmackenzie)
Sell me something inspirational, celebrational, not too radical
(my head's on fire, fire, my head's on fire, fire)
Wish I could make you wait and see what it means to be me, but you don't even see
(This world's on fire, fire, this world's on fire)
Yeah
CHORUS (@robynmackenzie)
So fuck you and this party, I'm not dancing anymore
Because I don't like your friends and this scene is such a bore
I hear your voice on the airwaves, catching flies with poisoned honey
But fuck your lies, fuck your bombs, fuck your money
Fuck you and this party, I'm not dancing anymore
Because I don't like your friends and this scene is such a bore
I hear your voice on the airwaves, catching flies with poisoned honey
But fuck your lies, fuck your bombs, fuck your money
Fuck your lies, fuck your bombs, fuck your money
@darcistrutt Mar 2022
The mix of these words between the two of you was a strong commentary on our world. Robyn a little more subtle and Daniel telling it straight out.
@ampersandman Feb 2022
Ha ha, i love how @popmythology who speaks so amazingly clear, thoughtful and eloquently on his podcast just drops them F-bombs here. The lyrics are full of righteous anger and hit on all the right spots. Love it.
@tunecat Feb 2022
Yeah I’ve just eenninandlistened to the song. Awesome lyrics. And I share your sentiments. There’s the odd reference I don’t get but that’s fine might need to go onto Wikipedia! Erm right on!
@stephenwordsmith Feb 2022
So articulate in all its anger. You've got a brilliantly flowing cadence and those polysyllabic rhymes are absolute fire. Seriously, every syllable in lines like 'It’s like Don’t Look Up, y’all too blind to look at the sky and see the path of an oncoming comet' hits like a fist to the face.
Off to see how these pan out when Sapient sings them. To Part III!
@elesimo Feb 2022
Well, I love that you went out of your comfort zone and gave this a try, Daniel!
@sapient Feb 2022
I love the original and these verses make for an awesome build into a vicious alternate mix of the song.
They need to be spat out with some real venom... I hear it when I read it. It's so clear.
Remember, FAWM is about writing songs, not recording them, and this totally hits the mark.
So good.
2 brilliant versions of the same song - gotta love FAWM :D
@marijequerida Feb 2022
I love and feel everything about this. Also, in leftwing groups in the Netherlands, 'liberal' is seen as a really 'dirty' word. Thanks for working together on such an important topic.